सेवा में,

     अध्यक्ष,

     राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग,

नई दिल्ली

    

विषय : जनपद वाराणसी में बुनकरों के बच्चो के कुपोषण (केस सं0        

5332/24/74/2012/सम्मन/एम-4) के सम्बन्ध में |

महोदय,

     आपको यह अवगत कराना है कि मानवाधिकार जननिगरानी समिती, वाराणसी के डा0 लेनिन द्वारा राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग में यह शिकायत की गयी थी कि देश में लगभग 13 लाख बुनकर है जिसमे से 2.5 लाख बुनकर पूर्वी उत्तर-प्रदेश में रहते है | केंद्र सरकार ने बुनकरों के लिए 6230 करोड़ रूपये का पैकेज की घोषणा की थी जिसके तहत बुनकर तीन वर्षो के लिए 2 लाख रूपये लोन ले सकता है |

लेकिन वाराणसी के बुनकरों को इस योजना का कोइ भी लाभ नहीं मिला और न ही कोइ जानकारी ही दी गयी, जिसके कारण बुनकर इस योजना से महरूम रह गए और भुखमरी उनके जीवन का हिस्सा बन गयी |

जिसे माननीय राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग ने दिनांक 23/2/2012 को संज्ञान में लिया और इससे सम्बंधित अधिकारियों को नोटिस दिया | साथ ही 4 सप्ताह के अन्दर उनसे रिपोर्ट भी माँगी |

इसके साथ ही आपके द्वारा वाराणसी के जिलाधिकारी से इस पर आवश्यक कार्यवाही कर रिपोर्ट देने हेतु कहा गया इसके बावजूद आज तक बुनकरों को कोइ भी सुविधा या योजनाओं से नहीं जोड़ा गया |

बल्कि जो बुनकर बैंक से कर्ज लिए थे उसे भी केंद्र सरकार ने पचास हजार रुपये तक माफ़ कर दिया है इसके बावजूद भी पंजाब नेशनल बैंक व अमीन द्वारा लगातार उन कर्जदारों को प्रताणित किया जा रहा है और उन्हें जेल भेजने की धमकी दी जा रही है, साथ ही अमीन व वसूली करने वाले बुनकरों के घर जा कर उनके परिवार की महिलाओं से अभद्रता भी कर रहे है |

इसी तरह बिजली के बकाये बिल की वसूली के लिए भी आये दिन बुनकरों के घर जाकर उन्हें धमकी दी जा रही है | एक तरफ तो बुनकरों के पास खाने व जरूरत की चीजो के न होने से लगातार भुखमरी व कुपोषण के मामले सामने आ रहे है दूसरी तरफ प्रशासनिक अधिकारियों द्वारा उन्हें प्रताणित किया जा रहा है जिससे बुनकरों में भय व्याप्त हो गया है व बहुत से बुनकर इससे टूट कर आत्म ह्त्या करने तक की भी बात कर रहे है |

अतः आपसे विनम्र निवेदन है कि इस मामले की गंभीरता को देखते हुए इस पर पहल व कार्यवाही का आदेश दे |

संलग्नक :

1.     NHRC को भेजा गया शिकायती पत्र की कापी |

2.     NHRC द्वारा दर्ज केस की कापी |

3.     दैनिक अखबार दैनिक जागरण की 24 मई, 2009 के खबर की कापी |

4.      दैनिक अखबार दैनिक जागरण की 28 मई, 2009 के खबर की कापी |

5.     दैनिक अखबार हिन्दुस्तान की 18 मई, 2010 के खबर की कापी |

6.     The Times Of India की खबर की कापी |

7.     14 बच्चो का आंगनवाडी द्वारा संदर्भन प्रपत्र की कापी |

                                                                                                                        भवदीय

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प्रेषित :

1.     अपर जिलाधिकारी (प्रशासन), वाराणसी |

2.     मुख्य चिकित्साधिकारी, वाराणसी |

3.     जिला पूर्ती अधिकारी, वाराणसी |

4.     जिला कार्यक्रम अधिकारी, वाराणसी |

5.     सहायक निदेशक, हथकरघा एवं वस्त्रोद्योग, वाराणसी |

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: A.K. Parashar <akpnhrc@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Complaint of Case No. 5332/24/72/2012, Varanasi’s weavers don’t just want sops, they need nutrition
To: pvchr.india@gmail.com

--- On Tue, 2/14/12, PVCHR ED <pvchr.india@gmail.com> wrote: From: PVCHR ED <pvchr.india@gmail.com> Subject: Varanasi’s weavers don’t just want sops, they need nutrition To: INDIAFELLOWS@listserv.ashoka.org Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 1:13 PM http://www.firstpost.com/election/varanasis-weavers-dont-just-want-sops-they-need-nutrition-212438.html Varanasi’s weavers don’t just want sops, they need nutrition Danish Raza 14 mins ago #Congress #integrated child development scheme #Malnutrition #UP2012 #Uttar Pradesh #Varanasi Email Share inShare0 0 Comments Khaliqul and Idrees Khan lost their son in 2008. Idrees is a weaver who makes Rs 100 a day and lives in Varanasi's Dhannipur village in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost Also see · Featured Read: UP's poster boy: Faizan who met Rahul Gandhi · Rahul meets weavers during Purvanchal visit · Centre announces Rs 6,234 crore package for 13 lakh weavers · Rahul Gandhi claims Congress will transform UP in five years Dhannipur/Varanasi: Out of an estimated 13 lakh weavers in the country, 2.5 lakh are scattered in Eastern Uttar Pradesh and it is only predictable, that political parties are out to woo the community. The Congress has taken a lead by announcing a Rs 6,230 crore package for weavers, under which, a weaver can get Rs 2 lakh loan for three years. Unlike previous schemes for the community, this one aims at transferring money directly to the weaver. But, the scheme has no takers in Varanasi’s weavers, for whom hunger is a routine of life. According to statistics for 2011 from the office of the integrated child development scheme, Dhannipur has 116 malnourished children, with 92 suffering from severe malnourishment (of grade three and four) in  the Kashipur Vidyapith block of the village, alone. In 2008, three-year-old son Shahabuddin was one of five children in the village, around 20 kilometers from Varanasi, to die of malnutrition. Khaliqul, Shahabuddin’s mother is tired of narrating the story of her son who died in November 2008 and handloom weaver Idrees Khan, his father, still struggles to make around Rs 100 per day— from which he desperately tried to save to keep his child alive. The office of the integrated child development scheme cites the average weight of a 2.5 years old baby in Dhannipur is 8.5 kgs — three kgs less than the weight of a healthy baby. The nearest primary health centre from the village, is three kilometers away and the village has just one primary school. With a family of eight to take care of, Hayaat Khan, a weaver from the village, cannot even afford to send any of his six children to school. “School going kids look healthy as they get the mid-day meal,” said Khan. According to a study conducted by People’s Vigilance Committee for Human Rights, an NGO working for the cause of weavers, 47 weavers committed suicide between 2007 and 2009. Khaliqul's son Shahabuddin died of malnutrition in late 2008. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost “To take that loan, we need to live and earn as a weaver,” said Idress Khan, who is looking for a change in profession. That is the only way, he says, he can survive. In his book Asaahr-e- banaras, late Maulana Abdul Salaam, former mufti of Banaras, makes a mention of weavers. The author notes that Maulana Alvi brought weavers to Varanasi seven centuries ago and over the years, they became an integral part of city’s culture. While Muslims and people from other backward classes were involved in weaving, trade was by the upper class Marwaris. Those weavers, who got good returns for their skill, became traders, lots of them buying power looms. In many ways, they threatened the Marwari class. For years after, the manufacturer-weaver-middlemen combine provided Banaras saris to the world. But changing market dynamics, the absence of subsidies and advent of power looms have brought the weaver, back to square one. Villagers in Dhannipur believe that the biggest beneficiary of Congress scheme will be the cooperatives. “Half of the total money will go the selected few who run cooperatives,” said Ansaar Ahmed, a weaver. There is another factor, which will not let the scheme become a total success. In Uttar Pradesh, majority of weavers are predominantly Muslims. “Islam does not allow taking money on interest,” Ahmed said. Furthermore, successive assurances is all that authorities give the villagers. After the five malnutrition deaths in 2008, then district magistrate Ajay Kumar Upadhyaya announced he was adopting the village, district commissioner Suresh Chandra announced 20 quintals of wheat for the village and Janta Dal (United) Rajya Sabha member Ali Anwar raised the issue of weavers in Parliament. But that’s what it was all about. Lip service. Even former deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha, A Rehman visited Dhannipur, but, “All he gave us, was a patience hearing,” says a villager. The only thing that every happened after the five deaths in the village in 2008 was that nine families of the approximately 3,000 families (and a population of 15,000 persons) got BPL cards. No wonder then, the village, which goes to poll on Wednesday, is not excited by the poll sops

Case Details of File Number: 5332/24/72/2012
Diary Number	18561
Name of the Complainant	DR. LENIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Address	PEOPLE'S VIGILANCE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS, SA 4/2A, DAULATPUR,
	VARANASI , UTTAR PRADESH
Name of the Victim	WEAVERS CHILDREN MALNUTRITION
Address	VARANASI,
	VARANASI , UTTAR PRADESH
Place of Incident	DHANNIPUR
	VARANASI , UTTAR PRADESH
Date of Incident	1/1/1991
Direction issued by the Commission	Dr. Lenin, Executive Director, People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, Varanasi, U.P. alleged that out of an estimated 13 lakh weavers in the country, 2.5 lakhs are in Eastern U.P. The Central Government had announced a Rs. 6230 crore package, under which a weaver can get a Rs. 2 lakh loan for three years. But, the scheme has no takers in Varanasi's weavers, for whom hunger is a routine of life. He sought intervention of the Commission. The Commission took cognizance on 23.2.2012 and issued a notice to the concerned authority, calling for a report within four weeks. Dy. Secretary to the Government of U.P., Home Department vide communication dated 27.4.2012 requested Principal Secretary, Women and Child Development to submit report. When no report was received, a reminder was issued on 12.6.2012. The Commission takes a very serious view and directs its Registry to issue conditional summons to the Chief Secretary, Government of U.P. u/s 13 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 to appear before the Commission on 7.1.2013 at 11 AM along with the requisite report at Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg, New Delhi. If, however, the requisite report is received by the Commission on or before 31.12.2012, the personal appearance of Chief Secretary, Government of U.(P. shall stand dispensed with.
Action Taken	Additional Information Called for (Dated 10/29/2012 )
Status on 1/12/2013	Response from concerned authority is awaited.

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